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PICTURE EXHIBITING MUSICAL BOX.

No. 355,089.- Patented Dec. 28. 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orncn.

onAnLns n. JUILLER-AT, on NEW YORK, Y.

PICTURE-EXHIBITING MUSlCAL BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,089, dated December 28, 1886.

Applicatiuifilcd May 23, 1855. Serial No. 166,467. (ModeLl Patented in France July 11, 1885, No. 170,083; in Germany July 14, 1885, No. 34,536; in England July 15, 1885, No. 8,591, and in Austria-Hungary December 14, 1885, No. Si/52,422.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known th at 1, CHARLES E. J UILLERAT, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvcmenis in Picture Exhibiting Musical Boxes, (for which patents have been granted as follows, viz: in Great Britain July 15, 1885, No. 8,591; France, July 11, 1885, No. 170,083; Germany, July 14,1885,N0. 34,536; Austria- Hungary, December 14, 1885, No. 35/2,422,) of which invention the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in musical boxes, whereby a ring or circular frame carrying pictures is revolved, so that the several pictures show through openings in the sides of the box.

The invention consists in a musical box provided with a ring or circular piece operated from the mechanism that produces the musical tones.

The invention also consists in parts and details, as will be fully set forth and described hereinafter.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional plan view of my im proved musical box. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the same. Fig. Sis a see tional plan View of a modification. Fig. 4. is a side view of the box on a smaller scale.

- The cylinder A, provided with the pins 13, operates the teeth 0 of the comb D, and is revolved by a worm, E, formed on the upright spindle F, and engaging with a Worm-wheel, G, on the endof the said cylinder A.

On the spindle F a pinion, H, is mounted, which engages with a cog-ring or circular rack, J, formed on the inside of a ring, K, at the top edge, which ring K is mounted loosely to revolve within the circular box L, which has slots or openings I in its sides, through which the ring K shows.

A diametrical key or spline, M, is formed on the top of the pinion H, and on the said spline the lower end of the tubular key N catches, which key is passed through an aper ture, O, in the top 0 of the box, and is adapted to receive the upper part of the spindle F.

When the key is turned by means of its crank-handle Q, the cylinder A is revolved and the tune played, and at the same time the ring K is revolved by the pinion H, and the pictures on the ring are moved past the slots or openingsin the box or casing L.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3 the cylinder A is revolved by a spring in a casing, B. On the upper end of the springspindle S a cogwheel, T, is mounted, whichengages with the rack J. \Vhen the spring uncoils and revolves the cylinder, the cog-wheel Tis revolved and revolves the rack J and ring K.

The pictures can be printed, painted, engraved, embossed, or otherwise produced on the outer surface of the ring K, or pasted on the same.

The pictures can represent faces, figures, landscapes, ornaments of all kinds, letters, or fancy characters. 7

p I have shown the openings in the side of the box, but it is evident that, without departing in the least from the spirit of my invention, they can be provided in the top and the revolving member be a disk in place of a rim.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A music-box comprising an inner and an outer concentric casing, the latter being apertured, the tone-producing mechanism within the inner casing, and mechanism operated from the tone-producing mechanism for rotating one casing with respect to the other, substantially as set forth.

2. A music-box comprising an inner rotary casing, an outer concentric relatively fixed casing provided with apertures, a tone-producing mechanism within the inner casing, and gearing connecting the tone-producing mechanism and the inner casing for operating the latter, substantially as set forth.

3. In a musiebox having an apertured casing, a rigid circularpicce or ring, on which pictures or other representations are produced, held to be revolved within said casing from the operating mechanism of the tone-producing device, substantially as specified.

- Ioo 4:. As an improved article of manufitcture, a circular music-box having apertures in its periphery, and provided with a circular piece or ring concentric with the peripheral shell of said casing, and on which ring pictures are produced, and with a mechanism for revolving said picture-carrying ring in conjunction with the operation of toue-producing devices, substantially as shown and described.

5. In a musical box, the combination, with a circular casing having openings, of a ring in the casing, a racl: on the ring, and a pinion or cog-whcel on the spindle for opera ting the drum carrying the pins for operating the teeth of the comb, which pinion or cog-wheel engages with the teeth of the circular rack on the ring, substantially as herein shown and described.

6. In a musical box, the combination, with a circular box having openings, of a ring in the casing, a rack on the ring, a spindle for 20 revolving the cylinder, a pinion on the spindle, which pinion has a spline, and a key, the lower end of which engages with the spline on the pinion, substantially as herein shown and described.

CHAS. E. JUILLERAT.

Wi tn esses:

OSCAR F. GUXZ, G. Snoowrca. 

